Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.

A goal that is set in your head is only a wish and holds as much form as smoke.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.